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Oprah: A Biography Hardcover
₦6,000For the past twenty-five years, no one has been better at revealing secrets than Oprah Winfrey. On what is arguably the most influential show in television history, she has gotten her guests—often the biggest celebrities in the world—to bare their love lives, explore their painful pasts, admit their transgressions, reveal their pleasures, and explore their demons. In turn, Oprah has repeatedly allowed her audience to share in her own life story, opening up about the sexual abuse in her past and discussing her romantic relationships, her weight problems, her spiritual beliefs, her charitable donations, and her strongly held views on the state of the world.
After a quarter of a century of the Oprah-ization of America, can there be any more secrets left to reveal? Yes. Because Oprah has met her match.
Kitty Kelley has, over the same period of time, fearlessly and relentlessly investigated and written about the world’s most revered icons: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Frank Sinatra, Nancy Reagan, England’s Royal Family, and the Bush dynasty. In her #1 bestselling biographies, she has exposed truths and exploded myths to uncover the real human beings that exist behind their manufactured facades.
Turning her reportorial sights on Oprah, Kelley has now given us an unvarnished look at the stories Oprah’s told and the life she’s led. Kelley has talked to Oprah’s closest family members and business associates. She has obtained court records, birth certificates, financial and tax records, and even copies of Oprah’s legendary (and punishing) confidentiality agreements. She has probed every aspect of Oprah Winfrey’s life, and it is as if she’s written the most extraordinary segment of The Oprah Winfrey Show ever filmed—one in which Oprah herself is finally and fully revealed.
There is a case to be made, and it is certainly made in this book, that Oprah Winfrey is an important, and even great, figure of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. But there is also a case to be made that even greatness needs to be examined and put under a microscope. Fact must be separated from myth, truth from hype. Kitty Kelley has made that separation, showing both sides of Oprah as they have never been shown before. In doing so she has written a psychologically perceptive and meticulously researched book that will surprise and thrill everyone who reads it.
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Crazy Rich: Power, Scandal, and Tragedy Inside the Johnson & Johnson Dynasty
₦6,000From the founders of the international health-care behemoth Johnson & Johnson in the late 1800s to the contemporary Johnsons of today, such as billionaire New York Jets owner Robert Wood “Woody” Johnson IV, all is revealed in this scrupulously researched, unauthorized biography by New York Times bestselling author Jerry Oppenheimer.
Often compared to the Kennedy clan because of the tragedies and scandals that had befallen both wealthy and powerful families, Crazy Rich, based on scores of exclusive, candid, on-the-record interviews, reveals how the dynasty’s vast fortune was both intoxicating and toxic through the generations of a family that gave the world Band-Aids and Baby Oil. At the same time, they’ve been termed perhaps the most dysfunctional family in the fortune 500. Oppenheimer is the author of biographies of the Kennedys, the Clintons, the Hiltons and Martha Stewart, among other American icons.
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The Wrong Guys: Murder, False Confessions, and the Norfolk Four Hardcover
₦4,500A compulsively readable true-crime tale, with a damning argument about the relationship between the death penalty and false confessions, based on an Innocence Project case.
“It’s time for Virginia’s governor to do something about the Norfolk Four….[This is] one of the most disturbing potential miscarriages of justice the commonwealth has seen in a long time.”—The Washington Post, editorial, December 1, 2006
On July 8, 1997, nineteen-year-old sailor Billy Bosko returned to his home in Norfolk, Virginia, from a naval cruise to find his wife on the floor of their bedroom, raped and stabbed to death.
In this gripping story of justice gone awry, four innocent men separately confess to the heinous crime that none of them actually committed. Though the real perpetrator has since been convicted, three of the four remain in prison today, attesting to the powerful role confessions—even false ones—play in our criminal justice system, where they typically trump fact, reason, and common sense.
Writer Tom Wells and law professor Richard Leo masterfully interweave a narrative covering the unfolding of the case with an exploration of topics ranging from coercive interrogation, police perjury (“testilying”), and prosecutorial politics to the role of the death penalty in criminal law.
With a clemency campaign for the three wrongly imprisoned men still ongoing, this book presents an urgent call for justice and a convincing case for reform in the criminal justice system.
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Funding the Enemy: How U.S. Taxpayers Bankroll the Taliban Hardcover
₦28,000With the vague intention of winning hearts and minds in Afghanistan, the US government has mismanaged billions of development and logistics dollars, bolstered the drug trade, and dumped untold millions into Taliban hands. That is the sobering message of this scathing critique of our war effort in Afghanistan.
According to this book, America has already lost the war. While conducting extensive research and fieldwork in Afghanistan’s war zones, a drumbeat of off-the-record and offhand remarks pointed the author to one conclusion: “We blew it.” The sentiment was even blazoned across a US military fortification, as the author saw at Forward Operating Base Mehtar Lam in insurgency-wracked Laghman Province: “I glanced over at a concrete blast barrier while waiting for a helicopter,” Wissing says. “Someone had spray-painted in jagged letters: ‘The GAME. You Lost It.’”
The author’s vivid narrative takes the reader down to ground level in frontline Afghanistan. It draws on the voices of hundreds of combat soldiers, ordinary Afghans, private contractors, aid workers, international consultants, and government officials. From these contacts it became glaringly clear, as the author details, that American taxpayer dollars have been flowing into Taliban coffers, courtesy of scandalously mismanaged US development and counterinsurgency programs, with calamitous military and social consequences.
This is the first book to detail the toxic embrace of American policymakers and careerists, Afghan kleptocrats, and the opportunistic Taliban. The result? US taxpayers have been footing the bill for both sides of a disastrous Afghanistan war.
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In Mortal Danger: The Battle for America’s Border and Security Hardcover
₦4,500Congressman Tom Tancredo explains in cogent, rational detail how America is heading down the road to ruin. He believes that the incredible economic success and military prowess of the United States has transformed a nation founded on Judeo-Christian principles of right and wrong into an overindulgent, self-deprecating, immoral cesspool of depravity. Without strong, moral leadership, without a renewed sense of purpose, without a rededication to family and community, without shunning the race hustlers and pop-culture sham artists, without protecting our borders, language, and culture, the nation that once was the land of the free and home of the brave”” and the “”one last hope of mankind”” will repeat the catastrophic mistakes of the past. “”In Mortal Danger”” is his prescription for repairing the damage.“”
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Iraq and the Evolution of American Strategy Hardcover
₦4,000Today the U.S. military is more nimble, mobile, and focused on rapid responses against smaller powers than ever before. One could argue that the Gulf War and the postwar standoff with Saddam Hussein hastened needed military transformation and strategic reassessments in the post–Cold War era. But the preoccupation with Iraq also mired the United States in the Middle East and led to a bloody occupation. What will American strategy look like after U.S. troops leave Iraq? Iraq and the Evolution of American Strategy examines the ways in which the Gulf War, the WMD standoff, the Iraq War, and the ongoing occupation have driven broader changes in U.S. national security policy and military strategy. Steven Metz answers three overarching questions: 1. How did the conflict with Iraq drive and shape broader changes in national security and military strategy? 2. Did policymakers and military leaders interpret the conflict correctly and make the most effective responses? 3. What does this process tell us about the process of change in America’s national security and military strategy and in the evolution of its strategic culture? Metz concludes that the United States has a long-standing, continuing problem “developing sound assumptions when the opponent operates within a different psychological and cultural framework.” He sees a pattern of misjudgments about Saddam and Iraq based on Western cultural and historical bias and a pervasive faith in the superiority of America’s worldview and institutions. This myopia contributed to America being caught off guard by Saddam’s invasion of Kuwait in 1990, then underestimating his longevity, and finally miscalculating the likelihood of a stable and democratic Iraq after he was toppled. With lessons for all readers concerned about America’s role in the world, Dr. Metz’s important new work will especially appeal to scholars and students of strategy and international security studies, as well as to military professionals and DOD civilians. With a foreword by Colin S. Gray.
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Peacekeepers at War: Beirut 1983— – The Marine Commander Tells His Story
₦4,000On October 23, 1983, nearly simultaneous suicide truck bombings killed 241 U.S. peacekeepers in their barracks at the Beirut International Airport (BIA) and 58 French paratroopers at their headquarters two miles north of BIA. In this long-awaited book, the Marine Corps commander of the U.S. Multi-National Peacekeeping Force that was destroyed by terrorists in Lebanon tells his story for the first time. Together, these suicide bombings comprised the largest nonnuclear explosion ever recorded and are now recognized as a seminal event leading to the current war on terrorism. Such acts of war revealed a new, highly effective tactic, which complemented the terrorist’s strategic goals—the withdrawal of the peacekeepers and Western influence from Lebanon and a change in U.S. policy. Peacekeepers at War lays out, in detail, a sequence of events leading up to the suicide truck bombings from which one can extrapolate the rationale, motives, and perpetrators behind it. Geraghty argues that the absence of any retribution against the perpetrators emboldened the terrorists to assume they could attack Americans and Western interests with impunity. This led to kidnappings, torture, and the murders of Americans and other Westerners. Peacekeepers at War will be of interest to general readers who want to learn more about this seminal event and its effects on the current global war on terrorism.
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The Sixth Crisis: Iran, Israel, America, and the Rumors of War (International Institute for Strategic Studies)
₦4,000There have been five central crises in America’s post World War II encounter with the Middle East, and the Obama administration now faces a sixth. Iran’s progress toward a nuclear weapons capability, and the prospect of Israel launching air strikes to stop it, are ingredients for a conflict that could ruin any residual hopes for fostering peace in the region.
The Sixth Crisis explores the fraught linkages between the Iranian nuclear challenge, the increasing likelihood of an Israeli preventive strike, the continuing Israel-Palestine tragedy, and President Barack Obama’s efforts to recast America’s relations with the world’s Muslims. It is the first full account of the situation since Obama took office. The authors, a former senior official on President Clinton’s National Security Council Staff and a leading authority on international politics, lay out in clear and accessible detail the technical and political dimensions of Iran’s nuclear program, and the ongoing diplomacy to stop it. They show how Israel’s panic about Iran’s nuclear threat–combined with its policy toward the Palestinians–is undermining Jerusalem’s alliance with America. Tehran, meanwhile, is exploiting tensions between Arab regimes fearful of a nuclear Iran and an Arab public that is both angry about the plight of the Palestinians and resentful of Israel’s nuclear monopoly in the region. The Sixth Crisis brilliantly illuminates this fateful juncture. The status quo is on an incline to disaster, and the hopes that President Obama has inspired are threatened by the toxic mixture of Israeli-Palestinian stalemate and Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
The time bomb of Iran’s defiance and Israel’s panic has the potential to spark a firestorm that would imperil US interests in the Middle East and engulf Obama’s presidency. With the outcome of this unfolding crisis far from certain, The Sixth Crisis is required reading not only for policymakers, but also for anyone interested in world politics.
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Clarion Garlic Capsules
₦1,000Clarion garlic offers all the benefits of garlic oil without its pungent smell. Clarion garlic strengthens the immune system as well as fight chest infections, cough and congestion. Clarion garlic is very effective in the treatment of hyperthyroid conditions and in combination with vitamin C, is used to treat scurvy. Clarion garlic also has immense benefits on the cardiovascular system as it helps cholesterol control, removal of plaque in the blood vessels and alleviating symptoms of a number of cardiovascular diseases. It also offers additional anti-infective properties and prevention of a range of tumors and cancers. Clarion garlic also assists diabetics as it enhances the level of insulin.
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Pomace Olive Oil (250 ml)
₦1,500Antonio’s Market Pomace Olive Oil is an Spanish oil obtained by processing of pomace oil and oils obtained directly from olives. Highest quality oil due to its low acidity (less than 1 %) and higher content of extra virgin olive oil. Ingredients: refined pomace olive oil and extra virgin olive oil.Antonio’s Market Pomace Olive Oil is an Spanish oil obtained by processing of pomace oil and oils obtained directly from olives. Highest quality oil due to its low acidity (less than 1 %) and higher content of extra virgin olive oil. Ingredients: refined pomace olive oil and extra virgin olive oil.
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The Aadaab of Sleeping
₦400The Aadaab of Sleeping
Aadaab (آداب), meaning respect and politeness.
The Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa salam said that: “Every child is born on Fitrah (man’s innate disposition to monotheism), his parents make him Jewish, Christian or a fire worshiper.” (Reported by Al-Bukhari and Muslim)
This hadith shows the important of the parents’ role in teaching their children.Parents should take care of their children and bring them up according to the Islamic manners and aadaab. Parents should be a good example in their behavior because children like to imitate their parents in sayings and deeds.
Parents should share responsibility raising up and educating their children.In Al-Qur’an (surah at-Tahreem 66:6) stated that: “O’ you who believe, protect yourselves and your families from a fire whose fuel is people and stones.”
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The Aadaab of reading the Holy Quran
₦400At Learning the Quran we maintain a very effective system for the Hifz ul Quran…
Aadaab (آداب), meaning respect and politeness.
The Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa salam said that: “Every child is born on Fitrah (man’s innate disposition to monotheism), his parents make him Jewish, Christian or a fire worshiper.” (Reported by Al-Bukhari and Muslim)
This hadith shows the important of the parents’ role in teaching their children.Parents should take care of their children and bring them up according to the Islamic manners and aadaab. Parents should be a good example in their behavior because children like to imitate their parents in sayings and deeds.
Parents should share responsibility raising up and educating their children.In Al-Qur’an (surah at-Tahreem 66:6) stated that: “O’ you who believe, protect yourselves and your families from a fire whose fuel is people and stones.”
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The Aadaab of Parents, Teachers and Elder
₦400Discover and share Quotes About Respect For Teachers. Explore our collection of motivational and famous quotes by authors you know and love.
Aadaab (آداب), meaning respect and politeness.
The Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa salam said that: “Every child is born on Fitrah (man’s innate disposition to monotheism), his parents make him Jewish, Christian or a fire worshiper.” (Reported by Al-Bukhari and Muslim)
This hadith shows the important of the parents’ role in teaching their children.Parents should take care of their children and bring them up according to the Islamic manners and aadaab. Parents should be a good example in their behavior because children like to imitate their parents in sayings and deeds.
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Cleanliness is Half of Faith (Imaan)
₦400Parent are responsible in teaching their kids about cleanliness.
Cleanliness, more importantly starts from keeping our body clean.Teaching cleanliness should start with personal hygiene. Children should learn the importance of hygiene and the various diseases when they are very young age. It is essential to teach them certain habits like washing hands with soap and water before meals, regular brushing of teeth, using the toilet, taking a bath, and taking wudhu (an ablution).
Cleanliness in Islam emphasis in both its spiritual and physical. On the physical side, Islam requires the Muslim to clean his body, his clothes, his house, his school and the whole community. Allah will reward for being clean.